The Holocaust was a state-sponsored, bureaucratic and systematic persecution and murder of approximately six million Jews by the Nazi regime and its collaborators. The Nazis under the command of Adolf Hitler believed that Germans were racially superior while the Jews were considered as an inferior group whose presence in the new state would derail the expansionist desires of Adolf Hitler. The Jews were also considered as a threat to the German racial community. During the Holocaust the German authority also targeted other groups that were perceived to be racially inferior.

On the contrary, the big slave trade is considered as the business that involved buying and selling of people, especially from Africa, for profit. These people were enslaved in the Capitalist Europe and were subjected to doing menial works such as tending the fields and working in mines (Franklin, 2000).

Comparison of the Holocaust and the Slave Trade …show more content…
The holocaust victims were subjected to torture before being burnt with fire while other died of diseases in the concentration and torture camps. Similarly, the slave trade involved the forceful selling of innocent people to countries beyond their continent. This was done by capturing the victims and eventually gathering them for shipment to Europe and Latin America. Due to the large numbers of the slaves, the living conditions during the shipment period were often pathetic leading to high mortality rates during the transit. It is estimated that only half of the slaves captured would make it to their destination. The poor conditions during the transit also led to psychological torture of the victims, which constituted to inhumane